It's been a long and hard war, and three soldiers are making their way back home. Tired and hungry, the soldiers come across a small village, but the residents there, worried that the soldiers will seize all their food, claim to have no provisions to share. Then the soldiers surprise the villagers: they ask for a large cooking pot filled with ...
Arthur the aardvark is thrilled when his parents allow him to adopt a puppy. However, he soon discovers that caring for a pet is not as easy as he imagined it would be. Watercolor and ink illustrations accompany the text.
The author considers the various factors which helped to forge German unity: the role of Bismarck; the growth of liberalism and nationalism within Germany; the state of European politics prior to 1871; and the impact of a burgeoning German economy.
The Worldwatch Institute's research team tackles the great challenge of our rapidly globalizing world: how to use our political systems to manage the difficult and complex relationships between the global economy and the Earth's ecosystems. This book provides concerned citizens and national leaders with an analysis of threatening environmental ...
This annual volume from the Worldwatch Institute graphically presents key trends that often escape the attention of the news media and world leaders--and that are often ignored by economic experts as they plan for the future.
Vaughn, Boston Red Sox first baseman and the American League's MVP in 1995, encourages children to be responsible for their own choices and actions, but to also follow their dreams. Using his own life as an example, Vaughn shows young people the importance of being resilient, strong and focused in order to achieve their dreams. Full color.
The Counter Reformation is part of the Cambridge Topics in History series which looks at key A-level topics through a stimulating selection of original documents and other source material. In recent years historians have transformed the very meaning of the term 'Counter Reformation'. Scholarship has broken free of the partisan bias which ...
Thomas Aquinas has always been viewed as a highly important figure in Western civilization, and the chief philosopher of Roman Catholicism. In recent decades there has been a renewed interest in Aquinas's thought as scholars have been exploring the relevance of his thought to contemporary philosophical problems. The book will be of interest not ...
This volume examines the contextual and methodological issues pertaining to studying diverse institutions, and provides effective and useful approaches for higher education administrators, institutional researchers and planners, policymakers, and faculty seeking to better understand students in postsecondary education. It also offers guidelines to ...
This book is devoted to the subject of real-time computer vision, and includes articles by some of the leading researchers in the world. The focus is on algorithms for interpreting visual input at video rates and on using the gathered information for decision-making controls. Topics covered include: shape recovery; model-based vehicle tracking; ...
This book for A and AS level history looks at the politics and policies of Gladstone and Disraeli through a wide range of primary sources. These include written sources (reports, letters, parliamentary papers, newspapers extracts, etc.) as well as posters, drawings and cartoons.
A volume in Research on African American Education Series Editors: Carol Camp Yeakey, Washington University in St. Louis and Ronald D. Henderson, National Education Association The failure of American education to achieve racial diversity has resulted from the inability of educational researchers, policy makers, and judicial officials to ...
Even before the 2005 « Disaster in the Delta - as the devastation and loss wrought by the category-three hurricane known as Katrina came to be known - statistics emerged about the aggressive educational neglect of Louisiana's African American schoolchildren. The harrowing data about the inadequacies being as racialized as the distribution of ...
Provides an introduction to Netscape Navigator Browser along with a copy of Netscape Navigator Gold and plug-ins. The work shows how to use the features of the Gold product, and also demonstrates how to create Web pages with the built-in Web page editor.
As different and significant peoples have joined its population, the United States has undergone various conceptions of education - its definition, purpose, content, and pedagogy, in primary and secondary schools as well as colleges and universities-and education for the twenty-first century will require curricular change. The quest for an ...
ow available in easy-to-use PDA format, The 5-Minute Veterinary Consult--Equine provides concise, practical, up-to-date information on almost all diseases and clinical problems in equine medicine. Emphasis is placed on definition, pathophysiology, diagnosis/treatment of problems, and diseases likely to be encountered by equine practitioners. This ...
This volume summarizes what we know about professional schools, transnational campuses, proprietary schools, religious institutions, and corporate universities. As the fabric of higher education becomes more complex and as students take advantage of these specialized educational environments, conducting meaningful and relevant research becomes a ...
This dictionary, compiled by an Anglo-American team of veterinary specialists, is written at a level that should be of use to veterinary students and pet owners, as well as vets and farmers. It contains 7000 headwords, 200 line drawings and a glossary with which to interpret the vet's jargon. The wide range of subjects covered include animal ...
There are four types of capital: economic, human, cultural, and social. The distribution of capital in home and school settings affects the types of educational outcomes and the quality of lifelong opportunities that individuals are able to enjoy. Resource availability and accessibility influence the success levels at which teaching and learning ...
Now available in easy-to-use PDA format, "The 5-Minute Veterinary Consult: Equine" provides concise, practical, up-to-date information on almost all diseases and clinical problems in equine medicine. Emphasis is placed on definition, pathophysiology, diagnosis/treatment of problems, and diseases likely to be encountered by equine practitioners. ...
In this work, the author outlines and explains the statutory and legal foundations of collegiate desegregation, traces the historical development of remediation, and analyzes the past and present efforts at compliance.
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